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Grimms' Fairy Tales

Grimms' Fairy Tales is a collection of fairy tales gathered and edited by the Brothers Grimm, whose first volume appeared in 1812.

This compilation includes some of the best-known tales the brothers collected, among them Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, and Snow White, which appears here under its older name, Snowdrop.

This is a very enjoyable read, in which most of the stories take up just a few pages but have enough content to have a good background. As magical as it is enchanting and at times somewhat dark, in this reading you will delve into many of the most classic and well-known European fairy tales.

The complete list of the 62 stories collected in this volume are:

  • THE GOLDEN BIRD
  • HANS IN LUCK
  • JORINDA AND JORINDEL
  • THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
  • OLD SULTAN
  • THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
  • BRIAR ROSE
  • THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
  • THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES
  • THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
  • THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR
  • THE FROG-PRINCE
  • CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
  • THE GOOSE-GIRL
  • THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
  • RAPUNZEL
  • FUNDEVOGEL
  • THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
  • HANSEL AND GRETEL
  • THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
  • MOTHER HOLLE
  • LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
  • THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
  • TOM THUMB
  • RUMPELSTILTSKIN
  • CLEVER GRETEL
  • THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON
  • THE LITTLE PEASANT
  • FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
  • SWEETHEART ROLAND
  • SNOWDROP
  • THE PINK
  • CLEVER ELSIE
  • THE MISER IN THE BUSH
  • ASHPUTTEL
  • THE WHITE SNAKE
  • THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
  • THE QUEEN BEE
  • THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
  • THE JUNIPER-TREE
  • THE TURNIP
  • CLEVER HANS
  • THE THREE LANGUAGES
  • THE FOX AND THE CAT
  • THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS
  • LILY AND THE LION
  • THE FOX AND THE HORSE
  • THE BLUE LIGHT
  • THE RAVEN
  • THE GOLDEN GOOSE
  • THE WATER OF LIFE
  • THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN
  • THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
  • DOCTOR KNOWALL
  • THE SEVEN RAVENS
  • THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX
  • THE SALAD
  • THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS
  • KING GRISLY-BEARD
  • IRON HANS
  • CAT-SKIN
  • SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED

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Pages
256
Reading time
8 hours 27 minutes
Pace
Fast
First published
1909
Language
German
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6,558

117 years later, still timely

Why Read Grimms' Fairy Tales in 2026?

The source code of Western fairy tales—stranger, darker, and wiser than many retellings. Short, memorable, and built to be shared.

Today's connection

Read them aloud to see how caution, courage, and cunning were taught through story. Folklore shows what a culture fears and hopes.

Roots of story

Motifs and morals that still circulate.

Read-aloud ready

Compact arcs, vivid beats, strong rhythms.

Cautionary wisdom

Danger taught safely through narrative.

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Portrait of Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm · 1785–1863

Foundational fairy tales gathered from speech and song; sharp ethics and deep wonder.

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From Grimms' Fairy Tales

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

567

One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.

563

Lina said to Fundevogel: "Never leave me, and I will never leave you." Fundevogel said: "Neither now, nor ever." Then said Lina: "Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it."

553

Nibble, nibble, where's the mouse? Who's that nibbling at my house?

— Hansel and Gretel 538

Where's my child? Where's my fawn? One more time, and then I'm gone.

533

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